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MIT OpenCourseWare
Wave Motions in the Ocean and Atmosphere
- Instructor
- Prof. Glenn Flierl
- Term
- Spring 2004
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 19 other files · 3 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
Other versions of this course
- 12.802 · Spring 2008 · Study here
- 12.802 · Spring 2004 · Study here (this version)
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 12.802 Wave Motions in the Ocean and Atmosphere, Spring 2004, Prof. Glenn Flierl — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- A lecture sequence of 20 items is confirmed. No assignments or exams were found for this course, so it stays as organized materials rather than a full course order.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Lecture Notes
78 items in this section
19 files
- Basics Download
- Boussinesq Download
- Available Potential Energy Download
- Lecture 4 · Topics Download
- Surface Forced IGW’s Download
- Curvilinear Coordinates Download
- Pressure-like Coordinates Download
- Surface Waves Download
- Shallow Water Equations Download
- Thermodynamics Download
- Laplace Tidal Equations Download
- Laplace Tidal Equations (LTE) Download
- Hough Functions Download
- Laplace Tidal Equations (VSE) Download
- Equatorial Beta Plane Download
- Rotating Waves in a Channel Download
- Quasigeostrophy Download
- WKB Approx. and Atmospheric Modes Download
- Eady Problem Download
Internal Gravity Waves
59 images
- k=2,m=1,cp=0.4,cg= 0.089,-0.18 Open ↗
- k=1,m=2,cp=0.2,cg= 0.36,-0.18 Open ↗
- k=2,m=2,cp=0.25,cg=0.18,-0.18 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- evolution Open ↗
- NK/(1+K*K) Open ↗
- NK/(1+K*K)**2 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- group vel Open ↗
- phi=30,beta=0 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- phi=30,beta=15 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- phi=30,beta=25 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- phi=30,beta=45 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- phi=60,beta=15 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- phi=60,beta=45 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- phi=60,beta=55 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- phi=60,beta=85 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- incident Open ↗
- 1st refl Open ↗
- 2nd refl Open ↗
- 3rd refl Open ↗
- 4th refl Open ↗
- 5th refl Open ↗
- 6th refl Open ↗
- 7th refl Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- Uk/N=1.5 Open ↗
- Uk/N=2 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- Uk/N=0.8 Open ↗
- Uk/N=0.7 Open ↗
- Uk/N=1.001 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- Uk/N=1.05 Open ↗
- Uk/N=1.07 Open ↗
- Uk/N=1.08 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- Uk/N=0.5 Open ↗
- Uk/N=0.2 Open ↗
- N squared Open ↗
- kh=0.01 Open ↗
- kh=0.1 Open ↗
- kh=1 Open ↗
- kh=10 Open ↗
- Graphic from section on Internal Gravity Waves Open ↗
- wkb disp rel Open ↗
Other materials from this course
Course outline
Calendar · Lecture Notes
Lecture 2: Boussinesq
Calendar · Lecture Notes
Lecture 3: Available Potential Energy
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Lecture 4: Internal Gravity Waves
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Lecture 5: Surface Forced IGW’s
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Lecture 6: Curvilinear Coordinates
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Lecture 7: Pressure-like Coordinates
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Lecture 8: Surface Waves
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Lecture 9: Shallow Water Equations
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Lecture 10: Thermodynamics
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Lecture 11: Laplace Tidal Equations
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Lecture 12: Laplace Tidal Equations (LTE)
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Lecture 13: Hough Functions
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Lecture 14: Laplace Tidal Equations (VSE)
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Lecture 15: Equatorial Beta Plane
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Lecture 16: Rotating Waves in a Channel
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Lecture 17: Leewaves in Compressible Fluid
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Lecture 18: Quasigeostrophy
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Lecture 19: WKB Approx. and Atmospheric Modes
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Lecture 20: Eady Problem
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Glenn Flierl, 12.802 Wave Motions in the Ocean and Atmosphere, Spring 2004.
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